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unusual facts about power vacuum



Ntombi of Swaziland

In the power vacuum that resulted from his death, Indlovukasi Dzeliwe became Queen Regent during the minority of the designated heir to the throne, but the Loqoqo, consisting mostly of King Sobhuza's senior relatives, chiefs and advisors, usurped her authority and sacked Sobhuza's prime minister, Prince Mabandla Dlamini, whom Loqoqo members apparently feared would strip them of their new role.

United States presidential doctrines

Coupled with the power vacuum left by the decline of Great British and French power in the region after their failure in that same war, Eisenhower felt that a strong position needed to better the situation was further complicated by the positions taken by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was rapidly building a power base and using it to play the Soviets and Americans against each other, taking a position of "positive neutrality" and accepting aid from the Soviets.


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Chance for Peace speech

The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, briefly left a power vacuum in the Soviet Union and offered a chance for rapprochement with the new regime, as well as an opportunity to decrease military spending.

Llywelyn Bren

The death of Gilbert de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan and the most prominent landowner in the south, at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, left a power vacuum in the region, and the heavy-handed response of the English Crown towards overseeing de Clare's lands there, combined with the death of several hundred men of Glamorgan at Bannockburn, precipitated a revolt in the lordship in late summer of that year.

Rajiman Wediodiningrat

On August 9, 1945 he brought Bung Karno and Bung Hatta to Saigon and Da Lat to find the leader of the Japanese army to East Asia linked to the bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki which causes Japan plans to surrender unconditionally to the Allied , which would create a power vacuum in Indonesia .

Success of the Iraq War

The New York Times in September 2012 reported that “the Obama administration has fallen frustratingly short” in some of the three American goals in Iraq - to leave behind a stable representative government, avoid a power vacuum that neighboring states and terrorists could exploit and maintain influence so Iraq would be a partner or, at a minimum, not an opponent in the Middle East due to political and ethnic tensions.